8:54 pm - 27 January 2005
north of the border and other travelling tales
i've been a busy boy recently. monday i went north of the border (to scotland. not canada, i'm english innit) to do some work. the work took an hour and a half, the travel took a day there and a day back, with a flight on an aeroplane each way as well. and it's made me wonder something. why the fuck do some twats insist on taking their suitcases on as hand baggage? coming back, this tosser delayed the flight by 5mins checking every sodding overhead locker to see if his suitcase would fit. eventually the air stewardesses let him put it in the bog (the room, not the actually shitter) so that we could actually come home. then the tit sat next to me with his girlfriend (she wasn't a patch on Inkysoso. not that i'm biased. i just have eyes.) then when the plane comes in to land, and is taxiing to the terminal, people start getting up and turning phones on and stuff (despite the announcement as we land of "please remain seated until the light has gone off and, as hard as it may be for some people, please do not turn your phones on until you have reached the terminal building blah blah blah"). remember, people, just because the plane has landed, your phone will still balls up the instruments, won't it. and just because we're not in the air it doesn't mean we can't crash.
when you get into baggage reclaim, the baggage handlers are right bastards. peter kay has it spot on really. you get into the baggage hall, and the carousel starts going after about 5mins waiting. another 10mins and the first bag comes out. on its own. and nobody claims it. then when its gone, the other bags come through, people jostling to be front of the queue (the inevitable bloke muttering the words "shit" and "fuck" under his breath and looking at his watch). it's funny really.
i got a coach from the airport to my local airport (5 miles away) because it was the easiest way to get there. on the way back i noticed a sign that had me thinking a bit. it said "Hitchin Hospital - non-accident". what is a non-accidental injury? is it like the bit in "Escape to Victory" (think of The Great Escape with Pele, Bobby Moore, and most of Ipswich Town FC and only half as good) where michael caine breaks the 'keeper's arm so that sylvester stallone (jackie from big brother's son) can play and escape instead? is it when someone's had the shit kicked out of them outside a pub for calling someone else's girlfriend a slag? i dont know. answers on a postcard.
i'm going now. farenheit 9/11 is on channel 4 in 5mins and i need a brew to watch it with. more later.
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